Nuberu

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The Nuberu - literally "The Cloud Master" (also known in Western Asturias as Reñubeiru or Xuan Cabritu), is the Asturian divinity of clouds and storms.

Sometimes it is represented as a man with a thick bart, who wears goat leathers and a big hat. He can be terribly cruel with people, damaging fields and pastures, although he can be also be very kind with those who had helped him before. The myth tell us that he live in the city of Orito, in Egypt. Some time ago he came to Asturias riding a cloud, but he was so unlucky that felt to the ground: then he asked for roof but nobody wanted to help him until, late in the night, a peasant took pity of him: In appreciation of his help, Nuberu irrigates his fields, giving him good harvests. The story tells that some years later this peasant must do a long travel to Egypt, and in that land he heard that his wive was already about to marry another man, thinking that his husband, after so many years in absence, is already dead. The peasant asks then Nuberu for help, this creature travels with him back to Asturias over the clouds and hinder the wedding. In the Asturian villages it is common to ring the bells in order to exorcise Nuberu.

Folklorists think that Nuberu is an Asturian remnant of the ancient god Taranis, who also ruled over the skies and was worshipped in Asturias until the Middle Ages.

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With a raven
At the sunset
In the mists
With a big hat
In the mountain